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    World Cancer Day: R&D Pharmaceutical Industry Partnerships to Enhance Access to Cancer Care Image

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    02-04-16

    World Cancer Day: R&D Pharmaceutical Industry Partnerships to Enhance Access to Cancer Care

    Cancer is one of the greatest health challenges of our time, and a leading cause of death in every corner of the world. Within the next two decades it is expected we reach 22 million new cases of cancer each year, the majority of them in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Without the preven...

    Access to Clean Water and Job Creation for Disadvantaged Youth in Bangladesh Image

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    02-03-16

    Access to Clean Water and Job Creation for Disadvantaged Youth in Bangladesh

    Watersprint, the Sweden-based environmental technology company, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to provide 50,000 people in Bangladesh with access to safe and clean drinking water by 2020. To support this effort, the company will provide training and employment to ...

    Diageo Arms Consumers with Comprehensive Nutritional and Alcohol Information About its Brands Image

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    01-22-16

    Diageo Arms Consumers with Comprehensive Nutritional and Alcohol Information About its Brands

    With the launch of its newly revised DRINKiQ.com, Diageo is advanc...

    Shifting Giving Trends Leads to Impactful Causes Image

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    01-20-16

    Shifting Giving Trends Leads to Impactful Causes

    (Marketwired) - To continue aligning with current workplace giving and employee engagement trends, Community Health Charities (CHC) announced a new product today called High Impact Causes. This product is designed to call attention to important health causes from some of the most trusted health c...

    Partnership to Improve Prevention of Women’s Cancers and Quality of Cancer Registries  in Latin America and Caribbean Reaches 1 Year Milestone Image

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    01-18-16

    Partnership to Improve Prevention of Women’s Cancers and Quality of Cancer Registries in Latin America and Caribbean Reaches 1 Year Milestone

    • The Women’s Cancer Initiative in the Americas works to improve the quality and effectiveness of national breast and cervical cancer programs and the quality and completeness of national cancer registries in the region.

    • The

    Improving Lives and Livelihoods with Better Healthcare Management in Chile Image

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    12-30-15

    Improving Lives and Livelihoods with Better Healthcare Management in Chile

    The Chilean company AccuHealth, a pioneer in virtual clinical hospitals, has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a patient-centric tele-monitoring service designed to improve the health and livelihoods of chronically ill patients with value-added medical care at an affordable cost. BCt...

    $500,000 GSK IMPACT Grant Awarded to Groups Building Healthy Futures in East St. Louis Image

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    12-17-15

    $500,000 GSK IMPACT Grant Awarded to Groups Building Healthy Futures in East St. Louis

    GSK [LSE/NYSE: GSK] in partnership with The St. Louis Community Foundation announced today an 18-month, $...

    Improving Eye Care and Transforming Lives in Mexico Image

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    11-20-15

    Improving Eye Care and Transforming Lives in Mexico

    salauno, a provider of low-cost, high-quality ophthalmic care to Mexico’s mid- and low-income populations, has joined the Business Call to Action with a plan to increase the number of patients it treats each year and expand its reach in Latin America by 2020. BCtA is a global ini...

    ViiV Healthcare Awards Additional Round of Grants to Support Innovative HIV Programs Aimed at Reducing Disparities in the Southern U.S. Image

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    11-20-15

    ViiV Healthcare Awards Additional Round of Grants to Support Innovative HIV Programs Aimed at Reducing Disparities in the Southern U.S.

    ViiV Healthcare today announced it will award seven grants to organizations across the Southern U.S., a community disproportionately impacted by HIV, as part of its

    World Diabetes Day: Health Partnerships to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes in Low-and Middle-Income Countries  Image

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    11-13-15

    World Diabetes Day: Health Partnerships to Improve Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Diabetes in Low-and Middle-Income Countries

    According to the International Diabetes Federation, there are 387 million people living with diabetes today (1 in every 8 people), and an expected increase of 205 million additional cases by 2035 if appropriate action is not taken. An added complication, nearly 1 in 2 people that have diabetes ar...

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